Pediatric AIDS: treatment and outcome of patients.
The treatment of pediatric patients with HIV infection/AIDS is structured according to the clinical classification of the disease by the Centers for Disease Control; it involves prophylaxis, therapy against the human immunodeficiency virus, and therapy for the opportunistic infections and non-infectious complications of this disease. In spite of all these forms of therapy, the universal outcome of HIV infection/AIDS is the death of the patients. Prevention remains the only effective means to curb this epidemic.
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South Texas Children's AIDS Center, Department of Pediatrics, University of Texas Health Science Center,, San Antonio 78284-7802.
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D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000628:therapy*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D015215:Zidovudine / Q000627:therapeutic use
D015215:Zidovudine